Future of IOT in the Manufacturing Industry

The time to adopt IoT products by industrial units is however unique for every product. If there is something critical to the operations of the plant, for instance pipeline leaks in an oil and gas plant, then acceptance and adoption takes less time as more than improving efficiency it can help avoid any casualty to the plant and lives of people. Chennai-based DeTect Technologies’ IoT product – Gumps monitors oil and gas pipelines even at extreme temperatures, detects any corrosion and transmits the data to the cloud for early detection of any defect. “For such a problem, while it takes time for client to be educated about it, but the acceptance to IoT products is there.

“Almost all our customers have deployed IoT for the first time instead of replacing an existing infrastructure,” says Abhishek Latthe, Chief Executive Officer, SenseGiz. The start-up offers enterprise and industrial IoT products for sensor-based monitoring to avoid machine failure and track assets and employees at the shop floor to boost productivity. SenseGiz usually run trials of 100 such sensors for a prospective client for a month to understand the changes required before implementing. The biggest use case for Latthe has come by exploring association with the Indian Army to deploy its sensors for surveillance at the Pakistan border. “We have already run trials for one kilometer fencing. The army has asked for some additional features in the sensor which we would present in March this year.”

 “Unless start-ups start doing it they will not see the implementation benefit. This is the challenge even as none of the startups have been able to scale in this space,” says Dr Sumit D Chowdhury, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Gaia Smart Cities.

The former President at Reliance Jio launched Gaia in 2015 monitors to improve public services and citizen engagement under his smart citiy solutions, industrial and supply chain automation and product tracking for logistics companies as part of its enterprise solutions. Due to diverse applications, Gaia has been able to scale to more than 105 cities with around 35 clients in IIoT vertical. For instance, it uses sensors to monitor quality for Amul’s milk containers when they are at third party collection centres.

Source https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/311647